I just bought this Lumix camera. I sow a lot of nice recommendations on Internet about it. It's very light - easy to use even by me ;-) it also has 18x optical zoom - I've read somewhere it's one of the best super zoom cameras in it's class. more here: http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2008/08/22/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-FZ28/p1